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Re: MS Word attachments

2000-02-17 02:18:45
On Wed, 16 Feb 2000 14:36:29 -0600, Matthew Saroff
<saroff(_at_)poseidon(_dot_)vs(_dot_)lmco(_dot_)com> wrote:
I've got the filter down, how do I send the message back with
a reply at the beginning, AND the attached word file?

Doing funny things like quoting parts of a MIME message is pretty
error-prone. I would suggest returning the entire message, perhaps as
an embedded MIME attachment. Look at bounce messages from a recent
Sendmail; they will include a text/plain part with some explanations
and then a message/rfc822 with the entire bounced message. Producing
this from a shell script is not hard, provided that you know something
about how to encode MIME messages (or have a handy utility such as
metasend(1) do it for you -- I don't know if it has exactly the right
capabilities, though).

    Subject: Re: (original subject here)
    Mime-Version: 1.0
    Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="matthew_was_here_kdfgk"

    F u cn rd ths, yr ml clnt dsnt spk MIME.

    --matthew_was_here_kdfgk
    Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
    Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

    I cannot handle Word attachments. Please resend your message in a
    sane format. It is being returned unread as an attachment.

    --matthew_was_here_kdfgk
    Content-Type: message/rfc822
    Content-Disposition: inline
    Content-Transfer-Encoding: (whatever the original message had)

    (original message here)

    --matthew_was_here_kdfgk--

You should take care that the boundary string is unique for each
message you send out.

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Not sure about Content-Disposition, too lazy to check.

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